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Continue reading →: Awaken to the World
By Matt Sapp During Lent at Central Baptist Church (the six weeks between Ash Wednesday and Easter) we’re focusing on the humanity of Jesus and the ways that Christ’s teaching “awakens” us to what it means to be fully human. This spring as we remember that God has a hand…
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Continue reading →: Heads up, Light Touch, and Keep Running!
By Rev. Matt Sapp A few years ago, I gave my wife Julie a hang-gliding trip as a birthday present. We spent the night in Chattanooga and got up early in the morning for a lesson at Lookout Mountain where she and two other students spent a few hours with…
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Continue reading →: What makes Scripture inspired and authoritative?
The following piece was a presentation Dr. Joe LaGuardia gave at a recent interfaith dialogue with the Interfaith Network of the Treasure Coast. The topic of the dialogue was “Sacred Texts”.. What is it about the Bible — this text consisting of over 66 books, two testaments, and multiple genres…
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Continue reading →: Beware of False Teachers?
By Joe LaGuardia Beware of false teachers, who come to you in sheep’s clothing” (Matt. 7:15). Lets reflect on false teachers for a moment. We don’t talk often enough about them, and I have a feeling that we hesitate to call anyone a false teacher because we don’t want…
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Continue reading →: Tour of Sacred Spaces: Seminaries, Monasteries, and Writer’s Offices, oh my!
I took my annual “pilgrimage” to Atlanta this past week and spent time contemplating sacred spaces. Although the first stop on my tour led to my old seminary whereby I attended a preaching conference, my time began at an interfaith prayer labyrinth we commissioned several years ago. I remember the…
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Continue reading →: Review of “Our Muslim Neighbors”
By Joe LaGuardia I recently had an engagement with Muslim interfaith advocate, Victor Begg, at a restaurant attached to a local, municipal airport. When it came time for evening prayer, Victor and his family sought a quiet place to pray. I recommended that they walk next door to the small…
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Continue reading →: Hungering for Righteousness…
In his 1969 devotional, Think on These Things, Norval Pease provides a compelling thought about righteousness. It is a reflect on the beatitude in which Jesus said, “Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness; for they shall be filled” (Matt. 5:6): Certain attitudes and practices ruin the…
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Continue reading →: What is more Important: Bible Study or Prayer?
According to Donald Whitney in Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life, “No Spiritual Discipline is more important than the intake of God’s Word.” Put in context of his writing, Whitney asserts that reading the Bible is the most important spiritual discipline for Christians. I have some other ideas–namely, that prayer…
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Continue reading →: The 4 Spiritual Hungers of Our Time
By Joe LaGuardia Writing as far back as 1947, O. O. Boggess hits on four spiritual hungers in his article “Your Body, The Temple of the Holy Ghost” that resonate today. Although the article is a bit dated, these hungers still drive us to find meaning and belonging in community;…
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Continue reading →: 6 Spiritual New Year’s Resolutions and Best Practices for Life
Greetings and Salutations, my Dear Audience… Here is a video from my Youtube channel outlining six New Year’s Resolutions that will help bring purpose, meaning, and focus to your life. Be sure to “like” and subscribe to my channel. Enjoy!
Engaging Heart, Mind, and Soul
Rev. Dr. Joe LaGuardia
Rev. Dr. Joe LaGuardia is a pastor, writer, and chaplain residing in Florida. He is author of three books and regular contributor to Smyth & Helwys’ Formations Series. His articles have appeared in USA Today, Baptist News Global, Christian Ethics Today, TCPalm, and Rockdale Citizen.
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